barrington interview

Lee · 07 Oct 2014, 14:07 · from 2014-October.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:07:43 -0400
Subject: (urth) barrington interview
Message-ID: <BLU175-W17B6990CCE66C510D961D4CFA20 at phx.gbl>

>Marc Aramini: And inevitably some readings will be closer to authorial intention, 

>some further away.  Wolfe knows if his shadow children are parasites and the 

>relationship, if any, between the Abos and the trees.

Let's pretend Gene Wolfe follows this List. Why do you think he continues to not

chime in and tell you that you are right and others are wrong? What is his 

motivation?

>No one has ever really talked about my Latro story (probably because it sucked,

>I suppose)

It is probably good. I didn't know it existed. Also, as an amateur Wolfe fan, I find

keeping up just with Wolfe's work to be enough of a challenge. Also, the Latro

series never interested me enough for a second read, for some reason.

>Whether the story works outside of the mystery is the difference between Wolfe and me.  

>My story clearly doesn't work, his do, but I can tell you if your guesses were right or wrong

>in my work.

I think you would tell us if our guesses were correct in identifying  your intentions. Another

difference between you and Wolfe. You truly WANT to be understood. He doesn't. Otherwise

he would make the effort to ensure he was understood.

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